Matteo Bittanti is the co-author of GameScenes, art in the Age of Videogames with Domenico Quaranta. This website, which explores game-based artistic production, distributions, and discussion, was introduced in 2005.
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Ivelina Ivanova's Low Poly Fever Dream Curated by Andreya Gandeva and Vasil Vladimirov November 22 - December 15 2024 KO-OP 17 Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia Bulgaria press release Low Poly Fever Dream merges digital nostalgia with social critique in a multimedia project. At its heart is Bot Brother,
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Brent Watanabe: One Tethered Bird The Behnke Family Gallery at Cornish1077 Lenora StreetSeattle, WA 98121Jan 17th - Feb 21 2025Brent Watanabe's upcoming solo show at The Behnke Family Gallery at Cornish will include work covering the past two decades, including his Grand Theft Auto interventions (San Andreas Deer
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Shimmer digital video, color, sound, 11’, 2024, United Kingdom created by Andy Hughes vral.org Shimmer creatively combines photographic assemblage, archival footage, and video game imagery, to interrogate the vitality and agency of materials, positioning pollution and climate change as pivotal concerns while destabilizing the dichotomy between animate and ostensibly
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The Unreal digital video, color, sound, 13’ 50”, 2019, Spain/Norway created by Gloria López Cleries and Sive Hamilton Helle December 20 2024 - January 2 2025 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti vral.org A machinima set within a seemingly alien landscape, The Unreal uses a first-person perspective to guide the
ART GAME
Mikhail Maksimov’s FlyOver is a VR experience that merges meditative gameplay with a deeply existential narrative. By transforming players’ hands into wings, the game invites participants on a tranquil journey through surreal landscapes, including serene swamps and dreamlike vistas where reality and imagination blur. The journey is marked by
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The Game Arts International Assembly (GAIA) is an event that creates space for people in the game arts organizing, production and curation community to discuss their challenges and share information. The first GAIA took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in November 2019 with 25 participants from around the world within
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PROJECT HASHTAG 2024. Photo: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Wish Office & Playing Art Method: PROJECT HASHTAG 2024 November 15, 2024–April 27, 2025 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul 99 Sejong-daero Jung District Seoul South Korea press release The National Museum of Modern and
ACADEMIC COURSE
UBERMORGEN, Joint Multispecies Ops: Digital Art Department – Jungle Zone – Work Simulation, 2024 BA & MFA in Digital Arts with UBERMORGEN University of Applied Arts Vienna Department of Digital Art Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2 1010 Vienna Austria press release Our four-year diploma program (combined/dual-degree BA/MFA program) is all about
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End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors digital video, color, sound, 34’ 26”, 2022, Hong Kong. created by Edwin Lo December 6 - 19 2024 vral.org A machinima video essay that intertwines fragments of Native American history with digital landscapes using Far Cry 5 (2018), End Time and The
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Lagares do Alvará is a virtual environment created using Unreal Editor for Fortnite, envisioning a partial reimagination of Mouraria, Lisbon, as a thriving, self-sustaining neighborhood no longer reliant on tourism. The project was mmissioned by Davide Onestini and André Trindade (aka By the End of May) for the 2024 Gentler
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Liquid Forest machinima, color, sound (soundtrack: Gaël Manangou, Congo), 8’ 37”, 2023/2024, France/Congo created by Isabelle Arvers November 22 - December 5 2024 vral.org Does the white man really not know that if he destroys the forest, the rain will stop? And that if the rain stops,